Sentences with phrase «student test scores during»

«That way we can put this issue to rest,» Bennett said, adding he felt the e-mail leak overshadows increases in student test scores during his tenure.

The research reviewed here suggests that teacher value - added explains a modest, but not negligible, fraction of variation in student test scores during the initial year.

Not exact matches

The law, which bases as much as 50 percent of teachers» job ratings on student test scores, was strengthened during a time when more rigorous standardized exams, based on the national Common Core academic standards, were being introduced into classrooms.

Tisch, who served nearly 20 years as a Regent and six as the Chancellor, led the controversial movements to adopt rigorous Common Core standards and tie a portion of teacher evaluations to student test scores, and also implemented more difficult state exams during her tenure.

Two - thirds of the students have not performed adequately on the tests, according to the state education department's scoring system, during the first two years of the exams.

Over an average of five weeks the blended students» improvement between the entrance and the exit test was 9 points, compared to an average score increase of 3 points for the students in the control groups during the same time period.

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

Test - retest reliability over short periods of time is the preeminent psychometric question for report card items because the data are not useful if scores that teachers generate for individual students on individual items are unstable during a period of time in which it is unlikely that the student has changed.

Controlling for student demographics, 8th - grade test scores, English language skills, special education program participation, free or reduced - price lunch status (a measure of family income), and mobility during middle school does not alter the basic patterns of graduation and college attendance seen in the descriptive comparisons.

As is well known, the economic benefits of a college education have risen dramatically during the past quarter century, and substantial evidence shows that students with good grades or high scores on achievement tests tend to pursue more education.

During this same period, high - performing urban charters grew rapidly and produced exceptional gains in test scores and college enrollment rates for black and Latino students.

Principals who rotate their faculty by strength during the year, or augment classroom teachers with online lessons, will find their staffing models a poor fit for evaluation systems predicated on linking each student's annual test scores to a single teacher.

For example, from 1990 to 2007, black students» scale scores increased 34 points on the NAEP 4th - grade mathematics tests (compared with a 28 - point increase for whites), and the black - white achievement gap declined from 32 to 26 points during this period.

Multiple laboratory - style studies demonstrate the negative effects of laptop multitasking on test performance, including a 2013 study by Faria Sana, Tina Weston, and Nicholas J. Cepeda that found that test - score performance suffered not only if a student used a laptop during class, but also if he or she merely sat near a computer user.

If you start bringing in college representatives during freshman and sophomore years, your students can introduce themselves one - on - one, explain that they may have lower tests scores or GPA, and the college representatives can give them advice on ways to increase their scores and grades, what they can write about in their essays, and «what they can actually get in the habit of doing in hopes of getting accepted into their college,» says Cole.

It is true that the test - score gap between black and white students narrowed during the 1980s, only to stagnate in the»90s.

Teachers entering the profession during recessions — and those entering when unemployment rates were high — were significantly more effective in raising student test scores than teachers entering at other times.

The improvement in teacher performance from before to after evaluation is larger for teachers who received relatively low TES scores, teachers whose TES scores improved the most during the TES year, and especially for teachers who were relatively ineffective in raising student test scores prior to TES.

During their first year in the country, the students will be tested only if school officials recommend that they should be, and even then, their scores will be used only for baseline information.

Specifically, the average teacher's students score 0.05 standard deviations higher on end - of - year math tests during the evaluation year than in previous years, although this result is not consistently statistically significant across our different specifications.

In the Chicago Public Schools, where 85 percent of the 400,000 - plus students live below the poverty line, test scores, attendance, and teacher retention all went up during Duncan's seven - year tenure, while the dropout rate declined.

An influx of recent immigrants during the mid - to late 1990s may depress the city's test scores, whereas they would be likely to rise with the return of middle - class students to the city.

During the first four years of the study, voucher students took a low - stakes test, but in the final year of the study, policymakers increased the stakes by mandating that the test results be publicized and the scores improved.

In a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, researchers Atila Abdulkadiroglu of Duke University, Parag Pathak of MIT, and Christopher Walters of the University of California at Berkeley found that students who received a voucher through the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) during the 2012 - 13 school year were 50 percent more likely to receive a failing score on the state math test than students who applied for but did not receive a voucher.

Nevertheless, despite our greatly enhanced commitments to public education — and despite the fact that children are growing up in better - educated and smaller families than ever before — student performance during this period, as measured by NAEP test scores for high school seniors in math and reading, moved hardly a hair's breadth.

Due to the attrition and replacement of students during the course of middle school, however, KIPP's eighth - grade students had pre-KIPP test scores that were about 6 to 7 percentile points higher than the test scores of students in district schools.

EN: During your watch, NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) test scores for students in 4th grade climbed steeply.

The latter part, called the quality - adjusted AP participation rate, is the number of 12th - grade students in the 2014 - 2015 academic year who took and passed — received an AP score of 3 or higher — at least one AP test before or during their senior year, divided by the number of 12th - graders at that school.

During that time, students who used Writing Fitness improved their standardized test scores more than students who did not.

During his tenure as the Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services at the Chula Vista Elementary School District in California, he oversaw the district's dramatic improvement in academic performance and high - stakes test scores through the implementation of a student - centered instructional framework and a cloud - based differentiated instruction solution.

Last month, during a hearing before California lawmakers on the need to reform remedial education — the system that aims to ready underprepared students for college - level work — a student testified that because his test scores required him to take one year's worth of remedial education, he would have to scramble to figure out how to pay another year's rent, school fees, and transportation.

The report cards, based on student test scores on the state assessments administered during the 2015 - 16 school year, were released Thursday by the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI).

SB322, introduced by Senator Mark Leno, looks to align rules governing charter student suspension, expulsions, admissions and departures by putting them on par with traditional school districts, and seeks to address the frequent accusation that charters screen students during admission to admit only students with high test scores.

During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).

Some parents complain that gifted students are used to tutor students during the school day to give them something to do and boost test scores.

Federal officials blamed the gap on several factors, including the fact that some states switched to new tests during the study period, making it impossible to compare student test scores over time.

During the strike, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she was concerned that «too much of the new evaluations will be based on students» standardized test scores,» and argued there were «too many factors beyond our control which impact how well some students perform on standardized tests, such as poverty, exposure to violence, homelessness, hunger, and other social issues beyond our control» (Chicago Teachers Union, 2012, para. 5).

These charts were derived from analyses by the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation (CETE) of the Kansas assessment and correlating ACT scores of a group of Grade 10 students in English and math during the 2014 — 15 school year.

Researchers used scores of roughly 8 million students tested in fourth and eighth grades in math and reading / ELA in 47 states during the 2008 — 09 school year to estimate state - and district - level subject - specific achievement gaps on each state's accountability tests.

Unfortunately, the growth in the number of non-teachers has not translated into student achievement as test scores have largely remained flat during this time period.

that involved several teachers changing test scores took place as student test results went up during that time.

A table that shows student performance for each question during the original TIMSS international test and the average international score.

Two weeks after the preservice teachers designed and presented their modelactivities during the sixth week of classes in the fall semester, one student (to be named «Trent» hereafter) inquired about a set of TI - 83s to use withhis onsite, small group teaching lesson, a requirement of the practicum course.Trent had been searching for ways to improve the test scores of these studentswhen he heard during class that using the TI - 83s and StudyCards was one wayin which a teacher had reached her social studies students with special needs.These special needs students had grown - up with GameBoys and other handheldvideo games and were motivated to learn using the TI - 83 since it was a similartype of device.

If we look at students» critical reading scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) from 2002 to 2009, during the time NCLB has been in effect, we see a slight increase in points for several years, followed by a decline to below the average score for 2002 (Gewertz, 2009).

Impairment to language acquisition because of excessive noise during classroom instruction also can lead to deficits in reading skills according to a study by Evans, G. W. and Maxwell, L. First - and second - grade students exposed to chronic noise scored lower on standardized reading tests taken in quiet conditions.

For example, one teacher found that during the first semester, his students who made the most extensive use of Cornell note taking scored twice as high on a national physics test as those who made the least use of this technique.

Then there is the case of Rebecca Sellers, who received low marks during her two observations so far this year, but the top rating, 5, based on her students» test score progress last year.

We examined charter school effects on test score growth overall, by charter type, and across four different cohorts of students, only for those students who remain in a charter or traditional public school during the time series.

Black students» achievement on state tests in math increased from 17 percent scoring proficient or advanced during the 2009 - 10 school year to 18.3 percent.

In a press briefing on the report, Schleicher noted that many of the top 10 scoring countries and regions on the PISA test, such as Singapore and Shanghai, China, are cautious about giving computers to students during the school day.